CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
Sinky The Pirate
Sinky is the opportunity to grieve, to look at that loneliness under a microscope and challenge how we can collectively find strength in a(n almost) post-pandemic world.
Smile! You're On Camera
An interactive, multimedia dance performance exploring the relationship between performer and audience member.
Something about The Dark and Pinching
A poem-like-dance approaching love and heartbreak from the perspective of two bride and groom-like clowns or dancers.
Socrates, an odyssey
Eliana Fabiyi
September 22 - 30
Liberty Lands
An epic odyssey of a little sock in a big house, braving mythic monsters, uncharted lands, and terrifying pets, all to be reunited with their other half.
spiegel spiegel
A performative approach to doubles, doppelgängers, and doubting, giving movement to the alienation of the self through a refractive lens.
Split Bill: A Musical Anatomy & Messy Perfectionism (Copy)
A Musical Anatomy by Mohit Patel is a one man musical, or as close as I can get by myself.
Messy Perfectionism by Sarah Owens: Ingredients - movement, visuals, poetry, truth, lies, emotions, and facades.
Split Bill: Aura & Glitter Baby
Aura by Britt Fishel examines the electromagnetic energy fields that surround living beings, including humans, animals, and plants, known as an aura.
Glitter Baby by Tammy Carrasco is a microcosm in which meandering dreamscapes, queer motherhood, and subtle spectacle collide and collapse into one another.
Split Bill: 2023 & something soft
2023 by Christina Gesualdi is a dream for a world in which housing is not violently monetized and transactional.
something soft by Mawu Ama Ma’at G. Oyesii is an improvisational performance ritual utilizing installation art, movement and technology to investigate how we soften.
Split Bill: Inner Essence & Thursday a fantasia of days
Inner Essence by Shiyu Wang tells a story of self-discovery, from the way we move and feel to how we interact with the world around us.
Thursday a fantasia of days by Lillian White is experimental response to The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton's turn-of-the-century metaphysical thriller.
Split Bill: Power Moulting & Man of the People
In Man of the People by Bellisant Corcoran, a sweet bum ponders how to be a good man when the world can't seem to agree on what that actually means.
Power Moulting by Kathleen Taylor disfigures and reconfigures behaviour so that it becomes impure, idiotic, and joyful.
Split Bill: Sounding Spaces & Cloistered C
Cloistered C by Aram Alan Aghazarian is an absurd meditation on moving through walls and changing locations.
Sounding Spaces by Barry Sharp is an improvised solo show that integrates acoustic instruments and industrial ambiences into a dynamic and psychedelic performance experience.
Split Bill: To Dance with A Purple Goblin & My Life With Shmike
In My Life With Shmike by Patrick Burke, two clowns attempt to retrace their steps from the pits of stupidity and figure out how they got to be so foolish.
To Dance With A Purple Goblin by Nick Ware explores mindful meditation, physical embodiment, and the practice of loving acceptance.
Split Bill: Tom Achilles: Guillotine & Johann Johann
johann johann by Zaina Dana is an immersive staging of a raunchy 14th century (older than Shakespeare!) sex comedy
Tom Achilles Guillotine is a cavalcade of original characters, poems, and mind fucks that leaves the audience wondering, ''Is this comedy?''
SUGAR HOUSES
Inspired by the story of Hansel and Gretel, the fairy tale's historical underpinnings, coded antisemitism, and violent imagery.
Tea Party at the End of the World
Your host for this tea party is new to the gig, but what she lacks in grace, she makes up for in burning human intensity and unexpected abilities.
Testing Site
A being is summoned into a white room and finds out that he is a subject in a series of experiments relating to phobias, conducted by a godlike mystery.
The Bad Pirate Rock Show
Jonah Godfrey and Friends
September 8 - 30
Liberty Lands
This is a pirate-y show about pirates! Specifically, one young pirate who realizes they want to pirate in their own pirate-y way.
the Function
A genre-bending,femme-powered dance work that asks and imagines what is possible when empowered to rebuild our environments, atmospheres, futures, and realities.